Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
ELBERT HUBBARDThe fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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True life lies in laughter, love and work.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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